Tool for peeling or scraping vegetables



(No Model.)

A. HIRSOHEL. TOOL EOE FEELING AND SGRAPING VEGETABLES. No. 414,908. Patented Nov. 12, 1889..

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ATTORNEYS.

N. PE'YERs. Photo-Lithographer, wunm mn. D.Cv

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST HlRSCl-IEL, OF HACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY.

TOOL FOR PEELING OR SCRAPING VEGETABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,908, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed November 2 3, 18 8 8.

Serial No. 291,651. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

binedwith it means for slicing and grating uses as well, thereby addingto the convenience of the peeler or scraper for kitchen and culinary purposes, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The tool will be found especially useful for peeling potatoes, turnips, or apples, for scraping carrots, for slicing potatoes or other vegetables, and for grating them or other articles.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a'view in perspective of my improved implement. Fig. 2 is a face view of the same, Fig. 3, a longitudinal section thereof upon the'line y y in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4: a transverse section upon the line w 00 in Figs. 2 and 3.

The tool, which is made of tinned hard metal, is constructed with a pointed coringscoop b at its one 'end, with a longitudinal incision 0, having the incised metal slightly bent outward and sharpened to form a knife or cutter d. This end part of the tool, when the remainder of the latter is used as a han: dle to work it by, serves, by holding the vegetable in the other hand, to peel or scrape the vegetable by suitably applying or manipulating the exterior concave surface of the scoop and knife d to or over the cuticle to be for instance, to peel a potato, a or it may be used as a Its pointed extremity the eyes from potatoes, or

removedas, turnip, or an apple; scraper for carrots. serves to remove Tools for Peeling the scoop may be used for coring apples and for various other purposes. The body and opposite end portion of the tool is of a flattened construction, the same being in the form of a flat spout f, having turned-up sides e, and closed over the rear end of the scoop, as at g, to strengthen the implement. This body part f has a transverse slot h in it, with its one longitudinal wall bent slightly outward to form a second knife or cutter 'i, which may be used for slicing potatoes by drawing the vegetable repeatedly over the back of the body f and against and past the cutter 41, whereby the vegetable will be cut up into very thin slices.

In rear again of the cutter rlthe body portion f is perforated or constructed to form a grater 70, for reducing the vegetable into still finer particles when required, or, in other words, for grating it as nutmegs are grated,

and the same may be used for grating purposes generally.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A tool for peeling or scraping and preparing vegetables,comprising the coring-scoop portion b, having a knife d, and the flattened spout-like portion f, having a transverse slot h, and constructed to form a cutteri on its back, substantially'as specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the

within-described tool for peeling or scraping and preparing vegetables, the same being composed of an end-coring scoop portionl), having an exterior peeling or scraping knife cl, and of a body and opposite end flattened spout-like portion f, having a transverse slot h, with an exterior slicing-cutter o' along the one sideof said slot, andaperforated grating surface or portion 70, as set forth.

AUGUST HIRSCI-IEL.

\Vitnesses:

FREDERICK P. VAN WITERING, CHARLES Kosr, Jr. 

